Teresa+Roe


 * SUMMARY:** "Teresa," age 19, died of abortion complications around 1974.

"Teresa" is one of the women Life Dynamics identifies on their Blackmun Wall as having been killed by a legal abortion.

Teresa was 19 years old and 20 weeks pregnant when she underwent her [|safe and legal abortion] sometime between 1972 and 1975.

Teresa had no children, but did have one prior abortion. She was admitted to a hospital for an abortion due to a heart condition.

A doctor administered prostglandin to cause premature labor strong enough to kill the fetus during expulsion.

About three minutes after Teresa expelled the dead baby, she went into cardiac arrest and died. No autopsy was performed. Teresa‘s doctor suspected that the cause of the fatal cardiac arrest was a pulmonary embolism.

LDI Sources: "Abortion deaths associated with the use of prostaglandin F2ï„"; Cates, Grimes, Haber, Tyler, //American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology//, 127:3, February 1,1977, 220; "Fatal Pulmonary Embolism During Legal Induced Abortion in the United States from 1972-1985,"; Lawson, Herschel W., MD, Atrash, Hani K., MD, MPH, Franks, Adele L., MD, //American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology//, Vol. 162, No. 4, April 1990, p. 986-990 include component="tagCloud"